This award recognises organisations of any size that can demonstrate how they are excelling in their support for their people and managers in embedding new ways of working. Organisations will have invested in their approach to flexible, remote and hybrid working for the future, and created innovative and progressive solutions to support employees and managers, empowering them to embrace new ways of working, while meeting the needs of the organisation.

Entrants will showcase how their people strategy is delivering future-focussed ways of working, aligning culture and processes, incorporating digital transformation, to provide choice in terms of how, when, and where work can be done. Entrants will be able to demonstrate how they adopted an employee-centric approach, embedded collaborative working and the appropriate leadership style to meet the emerging challenges.

As well as pioneering change, finalists will have demonstrated an appreciation of factors such as the impact of always-on technology on employee wellbeing and mental health. They will be able to demonstrate a proven track record of how the new approaches are measured and improvements in efficiency and effectiveness.